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Setting the Record Straight

Implementing UNSCR 1701

posted on 03/12/08

“[Ban’s] report was rife with tendentious Israeli allegations of weapon smuggling from Syria, despite the fact that the delegated commission confirmed the absence of any such activity in recent months.”
–Letter by Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari in response to the “Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701”

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“Hezbollah, by admission of its leaders on several occasions, has replenished its military capacity since the 2006 war with Israel.”
–“Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701,” February 28, 2008